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Ubuntu: USN-3883-1 (CVE-2018-10583): LibreOffice vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3883-1 (CVE-2018-10583): LibreOffice vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/01/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/14/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability occurs when LibreOffice 6.0.3 and Apache OpenOffice Writer 4.1.5 automatically process and initiate an SMB connection embedded in a malicious file, as demonstrated by xlink:href=file://192.168.0.2/test.jpg within an office:document-content element in a .odt XML document.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libreoffice-core

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